Nikitaras

Nikitaras
Νικηταράς
Nikitaras; Νικηταράς
	A portrait of Nikitaras.
Birth name	Nikitas Stamatelopoulos; Νικήτας Σταματελόπουλος
Nicknames	The Turk-Eater; Ο Τουρκοφάγος
Born	c. 1784; Nedoussa, Messenia or Leontari, Arcadia, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died	c. 1849; Piraeus, Kingdom of Greece
Buried	First Cemetery of Athens
Allegiance	Russian Empire; First Hellenic Republic; Kingdom of Greece
Branch	Imperial Russian Army; Hellenic Army
Unit	Greek Legion
Conflicts	Napoleonic Wars War of the Third Coalition Anglo-Russian invasion of Naples; ; Greek War of Independence Siege of Tripolitsa; Battle of Valtetsi; Battle of Doliana; Greek Civil Wars; Battle of Dervenakia; Third Siege of Missolonghi; Battle of Arachova;
Relations	Theodoros Kolokotronis (uncle)
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Nikitaras (Greek: Νικηταράς) was the nom de guerre of Nikitas Stamatelopoulos (Greek: Νικήτας Σταματελόπουλος) (c. 1784 – 1849), a Greek revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence. Due to his fighting prowess, he was known as Turkofagos or Turkophagos (Greek: Τουρκοφάγος), literally meaning the "Turk-Eater".